Example sentences of "are [not/n't] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People tend to think , because they are not doing sums on paper they are not learning maths — but they are . ’ |
| 2 | These are not shrieking cornflower hues , but smoky , inky or even blackish blues ( Lauder 's Dress Blue/Blue Mist duo , Lancôme 's Illusion Bleutée , Chanel 's Paradis ( Enfer ) . |
| 3 | The couple are not discounting marriage . |
| 4 | In particular it seems that members in the UK are not taking advantage of the scheme to the same extent as members in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland . |
| 5 | Members in Northern Ireland are not taking advantage of the savings available on Homecover to anything like the same extent as members in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 6 | There are very good grants but farmers are not taking advantage of them . ’ |
| 7 | Even though school generated activities are not taking place at these times judgements are made about the standard of work on display and the general state of order and cleanliness . |
| 8 | Police are not taking action until they know whether the men face charges . |
| 9 | Architects on both sides of the wall are worried that racing to provide the new capital , the politicians are not taking time to consult Berlin 's architects about the problems on either side of the wall . |
| 10 | Yeah , sorry I was going to ah er do , do you find that er the criminals are not taking notice of alarms off now because they know that people will be |
| 11 | Unlike the construction of age equivalents , in the generation of standard scores it may help to include children with linguistic difficulties in the standardisation sample , since the test 's items will be designed to discriminate these children from children who are not experiencing language difficulties . |
| 12 | If you need to send the remedy through the post and are not using dropper type stock bottles I have personally found it safest to add the granule to 10mls of alcohol in say a 10ml screw cap vial . |
| 13 | And I bet you , if you look at how many of your accounts are not using carriage forward when they should you would be amazed . |
| 14 | You are not match fishing ; you are there to help each other and share the pleasure of each other 's fish . |
| 15 | Fattening pastures , as opposed to land where growing youngstock is reared or dairy cows kept , require little manure apart from the droppings of the grazing animals , as they are not exporting bone ( phosphorus ) or milk ( calcium ) from the land . |
| 16 | Is the Minister aware that Members of Parliament , and anybody else with two homes , need only one television licence to cover both homes , the assumption being that they are not watching television simultaneously in both homes . |
| 17 | She is trying to make explicit what lies hidden at another level , one which the participants , whether schooled or unschooled , are not drawing attention to themselves : the cognitive level . |
| 18 | Sometimes , in hospital , patients are not given underwear , even when they wear outer clothes , so that toileting is easier . |
| 19 | Teenagers like to experiment and to feel rebellious , and problems can arise if they are not given guidance in the use of alcohol . |
| 20 | We are not given access to her private emotional struggles , but we are clear that she can not reject social values . |
| 21 | ESTATE agents are not noted art lovers , but they love houses that appear in famous paintings . |
| 22 | Along with other Scottish Local Authorities , we are not implementing care management in full in April 1993 . |
| 23 | These trials demonstrated , however , that the rice-based solution was unpopular with the mothers owing to the scarcity of firewood ( which was required to make the solution ) , and the tradition that very young children are not fed rice . |
| 24 | This is a private body advising Cabinet , and its views and deliberations are not made public . |
| 25 | First , social psychology is alienating because our everyday lives are not made sense of in our terms . |
| 26 | Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose . |
| 27 | ‘ We are not providing food in a normal environment , ’ he says . |
| 28 | When this happens they are not called male and female but they 're arbitrarily labelled plus and minus . |
| 29 | Diniz , you are not to take part in this feud . |
| 30 | Patients with coeliac disease who are not receiving treatment have low serum carnitine concentrations . |